Lord Frederic Leighton BART, PRA, HRSA
Other names: Frederic, Baron Leighton of Stretton
Born 3 December 1830
Died 25 January 1896
Active: 1864 - 1896
Country of birth and death: England
Painter, sculptor, medallist, illustrator
Born at 13 Brunswick Terrace, Scarborough, Yorkshire. Died at Leighton House, Kensington.
Wealth at death: £168,836 14s. 5d.
Probate date: January 1897
Works
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An Athlete Struggling with a Python
A study for 'The Sluggard'
1889 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1904
'The Sluggard'
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1881 - 1896
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 5 times: 1881 (1 work), 1883 (1 work), 1893 (1 work), 1895 (1 work) and 1896 (1 work).
Exhibited at Festival of Britain, London: Ten Decades, a Review of British Taste, 1851-1951, 1951
1951
Leighton's 'Man and Python' (representing sculpture in the period 1881-1890) was lent by the Fine Arts Society, and exhibited posthumously.
Involved in Architecture, from the Painter's and Sculptor's points of view (Art Workers Guild), 1892
Institutional and Business Connections
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1871 - 1873
Listed as a member of the School Committee from 1871 onwards. See Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
20 July 1864 - 30 June 1868
Elected RA in 1868.
Elected honorary member of The Royal Scottish Academy
1878
p. xxxvii
Elected PRA Royal Academy of Arts
10 December 1878 - 25 January 1896
President until his death in 1896. See Popp and Valentine, 'Royal Academy of Arts Directory of Membership', (1996), p. 74.
Elected PRBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1879 - 1880
Last listed in the RBSA exhibition catalogues as President in Autumn 1880.
Elected PRBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1889 - 1890
Elected as President for the second time in 1889; last listed as President in Autumn 1890.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
30 June 1868 - 10 December 1878
Elected President in 1878.
Honorary member of The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
1879 (Circa)
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1869 - 1876
Served as a Member of the Council from 1869-71, and from 1875-76. See Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1869 - 1878
Listed as a visitor to the Life School and to the School of Painting. See the Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of Alfred Gilbert
30 January 1884
For RA.
Seconder of Alfred George Stevens
28 October 1869
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of William Hamo Thornycroft
25 April 1879
For RA.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1892, p.4.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1904
1904
Cat. No. 696, p. 68
Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee on the National Art Training School, 19 November, 1888
19 November 1888
pp. 1-37.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1869, 1879, 1884.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
13 January 1908.
The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 3, L-Q
1991
p.37 and p.38
Citing this record
'Lord Frederic Leighton BART, PRA, HRSA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1210856727, accessed 04 Jun 2023]
